This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Terry Tempest Williams
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Quote for Today: Bill Bryson
Among the many thousands of things that I have never been able to understand, one in particular stands out. That is the question of who was the first person who stood by a pile of sand and said, "You know, I bet if we took some of this and mixed it with a little potash … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bill Bryson
Quote for Today: Erik Pevernagie
Like a snake sheds its skin, we are capable of getting rid of assembled habits, creating space to call matters into question. Instead of the Shakespearean "To be or not to be " we could favor "to become or not to become". By "becoming", we challenge the range of possibilities in our life and go … Continue reading Quote for Today: Erik Pevernagie
Quote for Today: Milan Kundera
When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. ―Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Public domain image … Continue reading Quote for Today: Milan Kundera
Quote for Today: Carl Sagan
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the … Continue reading Quote for Today: Carl Sagan
Quote for Today: Mikhail Bulgakov
'I believe you!' the artiste exclaimed finally and extinguishes his gaze. 'I do! These eyes are not lying! How many times have I told you that your basic error consists in underestimating the significance of the human eye. Understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes - never! A sudden question is … Continue reading Quote for Today: Mikhail Bulgakov
